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«They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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association, captious, fretful, impatient of, maxims, morose, negligence, nod, practices, tenacious, unlimited
«I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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cool it, counteract, dissipate, elasticity, inclination, inertia, natural state, pulley, pulleys, relaxation
«The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.»
«Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.»
«The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.»
«Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.»
«Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.»
«At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.»
«The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.»
«There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.»
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